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The Ethics of War and Peace

Nigel Dower 

ISBN: 978-0-745-64167-6

July 2009

Polity

224 pages

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The Ethics of War and Peace

Nigel Dower

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Description
This book presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the diverse and wide-ranging ethical aspects of war and peace. In a fair-minded and engaging analysis, Nigel Dower introduces the different ethical theories in traditional and contemporary debates – realism, just war theory and pacifism – and subjects each to detailed critical scrutiny. He frames these debates within a related but distinct framework of three approaches to international relations, namely skeptical realism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism. The book also identifies and evaluates two further important perspectives, militarism and pacificism. Whilst analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the different outlooks, Dower makes a strong case for a cosmopolitan pacificist position, arguing that we need to see peace in more positive terms than merely the absence of war. The book uses a wide range of examples from across the world and includes discussion of nuclear weapons, new wars, terrorism, humanitarian intervention and human security.

Written as a textbook for students who have no prior knowledge of philosophical ethics, The Ethics of War and Peace is designed to help students understand and see the relevance of how a professional philosopher can engage ethically with the world. Each chapter contains a helpful survey of its contents at the beginning and a set of questions for individual reflection or group discussion at the end.

This book will be essential reading for students of security studies, conflict resolution, peace studies, philosophy and political theory and anyone interested in the ethical questions which arise from the study of war and peace.

About the Author
Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.
Features
  • A clear and comprehensive introduction to the diverse and wide-ranging perspectives in the ethics of war and peace

  • Provides a fair-minded and engaging analysis of the different ethical theories in traditional and contemporary debates
  • Makes a strong case for a cosmopolitan pacifist position, arguing that we need to see peace in more positive terms than merely the absence of war


  • Uses a wide range of examples from across the world and includes discussion of nuclear weapons, new wars, terrorism, humanitarian intervention and human security
  • Each chapter contains a helpful survey of its contents at the beginning and a set of questions for individual reflection or group discussion at the end
Series
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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